Why did the Americans vote for Bush..........Twice?

Question

How could they have done it, what possessed them, or were they really possesed, Bush lovers please defend your man & give me a reason

Answer 1

He "stole" the election both times. In 2000, he did it legally and in 2004, he did it illegally, or so it certainly seems.

In 2000, Bush won the election with fewer popular votes than Gore, but do to an antiquated quirk in our election laws, called the "electoral college", he won the presidency. The popular vote determines the electoral college vote, but it can backfire and reverse the popular vote's outcome. If you're not familiar with it, I'd suggest you Google it, I mean, uh, "Yahoo! it". (Sorry, Yahoo!, I didn't mean to say that.)

In 2004, he won the popular vote as well as the electoral college vote, but it has been suggested that he won that election due to voting and counting irregularities in the popular vote.

I expect at least one of his supporters to be angry with my response here and accuse it of being tainted or baised, but these are the facts as well as I understand them. Many of his supporters are of the mind that any criticism of Mr. Bush is simply evil and traitorous, which is contrary to the words of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, who stated the following:

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

Answer 2

The first time the American people had had enough of the Clinton way of life. Guns were banned. Taxes were raised. The economy was busted. Abortion was rampant. We gave North Korea and China nuke technology. Social concerns were trending towards socialism and a lack of moral leadership. He lied under oath.
Gore was a simple lap dog. He had no thoughts of his own (except global warming...which is a loser in the USA). If Gore had won his own state...he would have been Pres. But his own people knew he was an empty suit. The Republicans had taken over congress and the train was rolling. Democrats only had a vision of the past to offer.
Bush was a "known" entity, because his father had been Pres before. The US wanted to return to dignity in the oval office and cut taxes.
With Kerry...the US is at war. Kerry could not be trusted with the security of the nation. He didn't care for American military use and everyone knew it.
The answer to your question is "family values". The values that have made America great no longer have any place in the democratic party. The American people are still idealistic and want to be told that better days are ahead. They still want to have a positive vision of the future. This is why Republicans win.

Answer 3

Many reasons.

1. Because we thought he was going to be conservative.

2. Because he is tough (if not wise) & after 9/11, that's what America wanted.

3. Because the Democrats didn't give us a great alternative. The system seems to be set up so a Democrat must win support from the far left by proving he's far left - them prove to the American people that he's a moderate. This gave the Republicans ample ammunition for calling Kerry a Flip-Flopper.

I'm not exactly happy with Bush, either, but I'm not so sure Kerry or Dean would have been better choices.

Answer 4

We didn't.

In 2000 more people voted for Gore than Bush. But the popular vote doesn't matter, only the Electoral vote. That vote came down to Florida.

Before the election, republicans in Florida had removed democrats from the voter registration rolls, thus denying them the vote. And there was a ballot in a heavily democratic area that was misleadingly designed. The Electoral College system made it possible for them to steal the election.

In 2004 computers elected Bush, not voters. And republicans were again able to prevent many democrats from casting ballots (this time, it came down to Ohio and the methods were different).

Still, an amazing number of Americans did vote for Bush (considering he has nothing to recommend him).

The media painted him as a nice guy. I sometimes suspect many Americans like to vote for the dumb guy because they (wrongly) assume he can't trick them or screw them over. And the media didn't like Gore personally because the found him stiff.

Bush was not popular at first. His poor ratings were on a long downward slide until 9/11 when they shot up to 90%. (Irrational, I know, and no, I don't really understand it.)

They then started a slow downward slide, again, but had not found their true level. (He's now very unpopular -- in the 30's, I believe.)

In 2004, the media, who had been doing nothing but taking dictation from the Bush administration for years, continued to do so. Reporting lies as truth. Smearing Kerry, touting Bush.

Yet it still took cheating with the paperless voting machines and disenfranchising democrats to give the election to Bush.

What puzzles me even more, however, is why Reagan is so popular. After all, it was during his administration that our quality of life started its spin down the toilet, and his administration did much harm to us and to the world. Yet folks just adore him.

Thank you for the opportunity to get this off my chest. (I'm obviously not a Bush lover giving you a defense of him, but the misinformation about why he inhabits the White House bugs me.)

Answer 5

This is how it is. I am not a "Bush lover" as you called it. I just believe that the democratic party is leading to something far worse than what Bush has to offer. You do not know what would have happened if either Dem. President had been elected so you cannot say that he would have not gone to war. You do not know that. But something I do know is that the men and women of our armed forces know what they signed up to do. They know that there were risks involved. Most get a sense of extreme pride out of helping others and we should support them. Not worry about our petty differences here such as how G.W. Bush sucks and we want more money and more power. Believe in the cause for democracy and the whole world will follow. And also, It took us about 7 years for our Constitution to be approved and instated after we gained our independence. Please be patient and support what our men and women are doing over there. They do not regret it.

Answer 6

Okay, so I am getting sick of "Why Bush" this and "Why Bush" that.

*I* didn't vote for Bush and I DID vote. But enough is enough. He is President, and, aside from impeachment, there's nothing we can do.

Now, while I agree the man is an idiot with the right connections, and probably a marionette to the "Evil Warlord" Cheney, I think all this complaining is a giant gaping waste of human time.

Why not, instead, spend your time campaigning for the legitimate candidate you think will do a good job on the next go around?

Start researching your candidates now!

Answer 7

We didn't. DIEBOLD gave him the election. With the use of DIEBOLD voting machines there is no paper record, and there is no logical reason not to have one. If you dont believe an American election can be rigged then you are very naive. It has happened before.

The first time ever exit polls didn't match the results happened with the 2004 election. The discrepancy was huge.

The CIA has used the tactic of rigging elections by making it close then when they announce the winner few people complain. They have done this all over the world, most recently in Mexico.

Answer 8

Because the sad truth is that there are no good candidates these days. We settle for voting for the lesser of two evils. While Bush may not be that good, Kerry was even worse. I mean that guy jump the fence more times then I can count. One moment he was for something then the next against it. We did not know for sure were he stood. Sometimes it is better to go with the evil you know the the evil you don't.

Answer 9

During the 2000 and 2004 elections, the votes of the voters who were not likely to vote for Bush (mostly African-American and the unemployed) were not counted.

The strategy of the Republican Party under Karl Rove is to avoid counting the votes of those who not likely to vote for Republican candidates, then they will win.

Unfortunately, the Democrats for some reason no one understands, have failed to effectively challenge these Republican moves. You can read about it in the links below. (Greg Palast, the author, is an American author who works in the UK; he cannot find work in the US.)

This is how American democracy died.

Answer 10

President Bush is focused on defending America and he doesn't concern himself with what European wimps think about it. He has no intention of surrendering to the Terrorists as the French would have done. In addition, he has appointed two excellent Judges to the US Supreme Court.

Answer 11

Here's a whole bunch of reasons.

The Khobar Towers.
US Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.
USS Cole
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Somalia - It was Clinton's utter and complete uselessness here, his tucking his tail between his legs and running, that lead Osama to belive that the US was a paper tiger. This single act alone is probably what encouraged OBL to commit to the 2001 attacks on the US.

Clinton, and most of the left, was and still is an utter joke.

Clinton never sat over a bugetary surplus. He simply sat on a wad of cash that he never gave to the intelligence cathering communities or the military. Anyone want to know why the CIA was unable to maintain their Middle East assets? Anyone want to know why we currently have a military that is not 100% equipped?

Go ask the Clintons. Next, are the legal walls that Clinton&Co. erected to prevent the NSA, CIA and FBI from freely sharing information, not only with themselves but also with state and local LEA's.

It's those walls that the Patriot Act has sought to bring down in order to ensure that our government can do it's job in keep us safe. And just so we are clear on this, we have every single civil right now as we did when Bush first signed on.

Last was Clinton's utter lack of integrity in regards to his actions with Monica. That was just vile and disgusting. The man has no morals, ethics or anything that even closely resembles a spine.

So I think it's pretty obvious just why I hated the left to begin with. Keep in mind that I voted for Clinton and Gore!!!! Yeah, in 2000 I voted for Gore. I did not repeat my mistake in '04.

Now, in regards to Kerry, he was truly a joke. Clinton had done more than enough to reduce my opinion of the left to rubble and Kerry did nothing to help rebuild it.

Take this tiny quote:
KING: Where were you?
KERRY: I was in the Capitol. We'd just had a meeting -- we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation.
HEINZ KERRY: You walked out with John McCain, didn't you?
KERRY: Yes.

This is from the transcript of KErry and his wife on Larry King on July 10, 2004. They were obviously discussing KErry's reaction to seeing the SECOND plane hit the WTC. This is critical. He, and the rest of the DNC leadership, watch the second plane hit. He did not watch a recording, he watched it live as we all did.

Kerry, and the rest of the leadership, then sat around a table until the heard a boom right behind them and that was the plane hitting the Pentagon. Now, why is this so critical? The timeline (third link).

Flight 175 hit the second tower at 9:03am. Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon at 9:43am.

Yeah. For almost 40 minutes, 2/3's of a freaking hour, the entire DNC leadership sat with their heads in a cloud while the US faced it's worst attack since December 7, 1941.

And people want to give Bush **** about his 7 minutes? Bush was told of the first plane at 9:00am by Karl Rove. (The first plane; Flight 11 hit at 8:46am) At this point in time no one knew it was anything other than an accident. Bush, instead of running off half-cocked did the rational and right thing.

He waited for accurate intel.

7 minutes later Bush was told about the tower strike (Flight 174 @ 9:03AM). Bush sat for another 5 minutes and then ended the photo-op. At 9:29 Bush is addressing the nation and by 9:55am Bush is in the air.

In other words, while the DNC were lost in the clouds during the worst attack on US soil in almost 60 years Bush was already taking action and had a prepared speech and course of action less than 30 minutes after first being told of the attacks.

Now, that does not mean I agree with a lot of his other issues. I support homosexual marriage. I support abortion right. I support stem cell research.

But safety is paramount in my mind and if there is one thing Bush is teaching the terrorists, just as we taught the Japs during WWII, do not tread on us.

Plain and simple.

There has never been a single democrat leader who is worth a wet fart during a time of war.